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  • I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

    Children   Men   Honor  
  • There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

  • Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral? Most individuals do not intend to be dishonest, dishonorable, or immoral. They seem to allow their characters to erode by a series of rationalizations, lies, and compromises. Then when grave temptation presents itself, they haven't the strength of character to do what they know to be right.

  • ... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

    Women   Long   Tradition  
    Dale Spender (1983). “Feminist theorists: three centuries of key women thinkers”, Pantheon
  • Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.112, University of Georgia Press
  • Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.

    Men   Names   White  
    Source: thefederalist.com
  • There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

    Names   People   Culture  
    "1998 Audio: Obama Admitted Welfare Recipients Potentially a “Majority Coalition”". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.
  • It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare abstractions with concrete things in real life (though both are honorable and necessary things to do).

    Source: brandonvogt.com
  • Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

    Funny   Sorry   Liars  
  • I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.

    People   Moral   Common  
  • Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

    "The Art of Worldly Wisdom". Book by Baltasar Gracián. Maxim 19, 1647.
  • Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

    Mother   Goats   Yeah  
  • I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

    Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.332, Univ of California Press
  • There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  • The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

    Solitude   Secret   Age  
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK
  • That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

    Silly   Olives   Anna  
  • Gaylord (Perry) is a very honorable man. He only calls for the spitter when he needs it.

  • The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said no matter how much they attacked him and the Nation of Islam under his leadership, they only helped the Nation to grow. So, the more they attacked me and the more I withstood that onslaught, the more thousands of people came out to, at least, hear a man that was being so vilified in the media. When they recognized that they were not hurting but helping me, they decided they wouldn't say anything except to continue to discredit. So, there is a conscious effort not to publicize anything that the Nation is doing of value.

    Hurt   Men   Media  
    Source: www.finalcall.com
  • Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3137, Delphi Classics
  • Gods be good, why would any man ever want to be king? When everyone was shouting King in the North, King in the North, I told myself ... swore to myself ... that I would be a good king, as honorable as Father, strong, just, loyal to my friends and brave when I faced my enemies ... now I can't even tell one from the other.

    Strong   Kings   Father  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1691, Bantam
  • I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

    Class   People   Serenity  
    Gertrude Stein (2016). “Three Lives”, p.250, Simon and Schuster
  • Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

  • We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

    Struggle   Heart   Self  
    Jack Kornfield (2010). “The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace”, p.162, Random House
  • Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

  • The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America.

    Source: teachingamericanhistory.org
  • A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

    Book   Men   Years  
  • We're looking at a lot of race cars as inspiration for our starships. It's wonderful. It's surreal. I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be a Star Trek writer, so to be able to craft a new iteration of the show with new characters and a whole new adventure and whole new way of telling stories that you haven't been able to tell on Star Trek is honorable and it's a dream come true. It's hard to articulate that.

    Source: collider.com
  • What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

    Honor   Dignity   Reason  
    Jeremy Collier (1725). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.223
  • You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

  • Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

    Humble   Humility   Pride  
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